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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter consists of three main parts. The first part is object of the study. It describes the work to be studied. It mentions briefly, what the work is
about generally. The second part is the approach of the study. It presents the approach which is used to analyze the study. The third part is the method of the
study. It describes the steps taken in analyzing to report data.
A. Object of the Study
This study analyzes a novel entitled The Husband. It was written by an American writer named Dean Koontz. This novel was published by Bantam Dell,
A Division of Random House, Inc. New York, in January 2006. This novel consists of 68 chapters with 415 pages. This book is published in 38 languages.
Dean Koontz’s The Husband is the story of love and thriller. Generally, this novel tells about the husband, named Mitch Rafferty who
tries to save his wife, Holly from the kidnappers. The kidnappers ask Mitch to meet his brother named Anson Rafferty to get the ransom. Mitch always thinks
that his brother is a kind person, because in their childhood, Anson always helps and protects his siblings. At the first time, Anson offers to give Mitch the two
million dollars ransom amount and promises to save both Holly and Mitch. Then they go to Julian Campbell’s residence, Campbell is Anson’s friend. After
arriving at Julians huge estate, Anson pulls a gun on Mitch. He tells that he will
30 not give the ransom to save neither Mitch nor Holly. Mitch surprises knowing the
fact that Anson has trapped him. Holly is being kidnapped because of Anson. Anson also tries to trap
Mitch. He kills his parents by using Mitch’s gardening tools, so that the police think that Mitch is the person who plans this criminality. His ambition makes him
do such kind of criminality. He traps his own brother just to prove that he is the hardest and strongest. Anson can deceive many people for a long time. Anson
who has been believed as a kind, successful, and low profile person is not more than a bad guy who brings the heart to kill the parents to take revenge for bad
treatment in his childhood. Anson, Mitch and three sisters, Connie, Megan and Portia have had an
unusual upbringing. Anson has been brought up to be self-sufficient, depended on no deity and does not have moral code. Daniel and Katherine Rafferty use
learning room to educate their children. They make their children to follow their expectation and inhibit children freedom. This kind of rearing child is the kind of
psychological abuse and this study focuses on the influence of parents’ abuse on Anson’s personality development.
B. Approach of the Study
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